Suttons Bay, MI population, income and ZIP codes

Suttons Bay village is a very small community in Michigan, with 587 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #526 of 745 ranked by population — larger than 29% of them. The median age here is 69.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Suttons Bay village earn a median of $123,125 a year, 56.8% above the national figure of $78,538 and 100% above the $61,715 median for the 438 Michigan cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 5.2% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Suttons Bay village is valued at $524,700, 72.9% above the national figure and 216% above the $166,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 82.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 69.4 puts Suttons Bay village well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 587 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Suttons Bay village against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Suttons Bay village because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.